The National tribune., 1887-07-28
PERSONS AND THINGS.

A citizen of Cincinnati thought that he had a
sure fortune In kitten which had five heads, five
tails, 10 forelegs, and five hindlegs. He also
thought that it ought to have about 45 lives and
good for many years, but after brief career of Is
days the little monstrOsity died the result of too
much handling by the curious.
Before 1896 a brook ran through the village
OF Roxbury, Mass, and then was filed up and
houses built where once it flowed. On Friday
wOrkmen engaged in digging a cellar on the site of
one of these old houses uneaTthed big mud turtle.
The animal was two and half feet long, over foot
wide, and weighed % pounds. Without doubt il
had been buried 30 years. 1t was alive and In ap-
parent good health.
Six Scotch bailies came to presentan address of
eongratuation to Victoria. They asked what they
had to do on entering the Queens presence, and
were told they should kiss hands. Thereupon
Bailie No as he solemnly staked past the throne,
raised his hand to his mouth and blew her Majesty
kiss The remaining five followed suit, till the
Queen had lit Of the heartiest laughter she has
enjoyed for a long time.
Mr.. Barber, of Lyonsdale, N. Y, threw his
black Newfoundland dog into the stream there
when II was quite high, and the animal carried
over the dam. Instead of going down stream, an
eddy carried MIN 10 the dry docks under the dam,
from which he was unable To make his escape until
the water receded. He remained there 21 days
without food, and when he came out his hair had
nearly all turned white.
"A church sociable and hugging bee at Elk
Creek, Neb., broke in row recently. A withered
remnant of q man, aching for smack at a sweet
10 or thereabouts, blew In Is cents and was blind
folded The managers ran his wife against him
and the squeeze he gave her made her back ache.
When the bandage was removed and he discovered
the swindle he hOwled like wild man, smote a
manager on the jaw, and ehoked the Treasurer
till he refunded.
"A Niles man who read in the paper that no dog
would become mad If given plenty of water, acted
upon the suggestion and dropped his dog into his
neighbours well. IL prevented the rabies far as
the dog was concerned, but the neighbOr was al
mighty mad.
"A sportive bull in Wayne, Neb, charged on
the town fire-engine while the machine was being
tested. The boys turned the hose on the bulls eye
offa oh
tired to the field thoroughly cooled.
The favorite temperance refreshment in Hot
Springs, under the three-mile prohibition law is
brandy cherries. They are brought to the town in
sufficient quantities to make great many people
drunk.
There Is n wide-awake physician in Australia
who adverises that he will pay One-half the funeral
expenses in eases where he is not successful.
The Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe Railroad
alone has already booked 20 900 passengers for Los
Angeles for the coming Winter. Where all these
visitors will be housed Is a problem that is now
troubling the enterprsing citizens of that prosper
Gus town.
"A wonderful story about a cat is told by the st.
Louis Globe Democrat. This cat had litter of
three kittens. Not being satisfied with this small
| family, she went out and brought in two young
rabbits and adopted them as part of her family and
nursed them with rs much care as she did her own
young. A few days later she captured three young
| eoons and added them to her family. At last ac-
counts the novel family Of one mother cat. three
kittens, two rabbits and three young eoons were
/ living in perfect harmony, all in one nest.
According to the Oh City Derrick there are
/ more than $4,000 miles of tubing used in the oil
| wells Of Pennsylvania. AT Is cents a foot this
/ tabing would cost s290O0O00. 1t would require
allowing 400 feet to the WELL 81 500 900 feet of 5S
casing, which, at 80 cents per foot, would amount
i to SI5750O0O. Allowing average of 100 feet OF
drive pipe to a WELL it would require 800 600 feet
and cost, at sl.i0 per foot, sl0,500000. 10 would
take ST. 10000 worth of lEmber to build the rigs
i and the machinery and boilers necessary would
cost s2000O,OOO more, making grand aggregate Of
1 $50, $4,000.